Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EASY RIDER. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda cruise around the country on their choppers looking for the meaning of it all. If the self-pity becomes rather too heavy at times, Hopper (who also directed) has captured some telling bits of Americana on film and extracted a performance from Jack Nicholson that is a model of intuition and sensitivity...
...owner of the liberal Texas Observer and an expert Lyndonologist, speculates: "He has given up on current opinion and retreated into history. With his memoirs, he is going to try to make as strong a case as possible for his decisions, particularly about the war. He is plunged into self-justification...
Sixty years ago last week, Sigmund Freud paid his only visit to the U.S. to deliver a series of five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. The $750 fee was a great help to the hard-pressed doctor, and the warm reception, he later noted, "encouraged my self-respect in every way." Now a collection of 13 letters discovered in the basement of Clark's library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone...
Many schools that have recently added young trustees to their boards regard it as a way to yield to student demands for self-determination without suffering any traumas. Indeed, the new trustees could hardly be called firebrands. Perhaps the most militant of them, Brent L. Henry, a 21-year-old Princeton senior, helped to seize a campus building last March to protest his school's investment ties with South Africa. Henry's plans as a trustee, however, are reassuringly moderate. "I will listen," he said, "to the students and the deans and their views before making decisions...
When his second son, Barron, first approached him about a job in 1946, Hotelman Conrad Hilton was less than enthusiastic about the idea. A college dropout about to become a father at 19, Barton had far to go to prove him self as a businessman. Nor did he agree with his father's evaluation of his tal ent. Barren said that he would not work for less than $1,000 a month. Conrad was not willing to pay him more than $150. The young man decided to go into business for himself...